RE: [dita-fa-edboard] Minutes: DITA XML.org EdBoard Meeting March 2008

["Carol Geyer" <carol.geyer@oasis-open.org>]

Bob,
The new authoring tools page looks great. Nit: should it be titled "About
authoring tools" or just "Authoring tools"?

Thanks so much for all your work on this and the other pages cited below.
Hopefully, others on the EdBoard will have a chance to review those and provide
feedback.

Carol  

-----Original Message-----
From: Bob Doyle [mailto:bobdoyle@skybuilders.com] 
Sent: Monday, March 17, 2008 4:41 PM
To: Carol Geyer
Cc: DITA Editorial Board
Subject: Re: [dita-fa-edboard] Minutes: DITA XML.org EdBoard Meeting March 2008

Hi Carol and all,

Following up on the last week's action items, I have done the following.

Created the Wiki page for About authoring tools
<http://dita.xml.org/wiki/About%2520authoring%2520tools> , as requested.

I think we were asked to look at other pages and possibly create new ones to
eliminate the red links? 

Our progress in getting rid of red (non-existing) pages has been so slow over
the past several months I thought I would just jump in and do something for as
many as possible. 

I added new pages for 

Installing the DITA Open Toolkit
<http://dita.xml.org/wiki/Installing%2520the%2520DITA%2520Open%2520Toolkit> 
Setting up stylesheets and a publishing system
<http://dita.xml.org/wiki/Setting%2520up%2520stylesheets%2520and%2520a%2520publ
ishing%2520system> 
About storing and managing content
<http://dita.xml.org/wiki/About%2520storing%2520and%2520managing%2520content> 
DITA Conferences <http://dita.xml.org/wiki/DITA%2520Conferences> 
DITA language reference 1.1
<http://dita.xml.org/wiki/DITA%2520language%2520reference%25201.1> 
DITA architectural specification 1.1
<http://dita.xml.org/wiki/DITA%2520architectural%2520specification%25201.1> 

I also found links to 1.0 specs on some pages and changed them to 1.1.

I found I could start all but two new pages:
Change management <http://dita.xml.org/wiki/Change%2520management>  - this
seems just general business advice - We could say that the big change is
getting writers comfortable with writing topics.
Supported languages <http://dita.xml.org/wiki/Supported%2520languages>  - Do I
recall a past meeting when JoAnn said all languages are supported? Should we
eliminate this entry?

Cheers.

Bob.



On 3/13/08, Carol Geyer <carol.geyer@oasis-open.org> wrote:

	Attending: Bob, Scott, JoAnn, Carol
	
	Regrets: Su-Laine, Kay
	
	Agenda:
	
	1. OASIS DITA Adoption Subcommittee
	
	Team discussed the benefits of transitioning Editorial Board to a DITA
Adoption
	SC within OASIS. The SC could also take on other projects to promote
DITA
	adoption, such as organizing webinars and interoperability demos,
editing
	Wikipedia references to DITA, etc. The OASIS XLIFF TC has expressed
interest in
	collaborating on a DITA XLIFF webinar this spring and an interop this
fall. A
	DITA Adoption SC could organize those activities.
	
	AI: JoAnn to pursue the SC set-up with Mary McRae.
	
	
	2. Fixing outdated Wiki Knowledgebase pages
	
	We haven't been able to make much progress on this, perhaps owing to
the fact
	that the task is so large and people's time is so limited. We agreed
that each
	EdBoard member should choose *one page* to review and edit each month,
commit
	to it via our email list (so that we aren't duplicating efforts), and
report
	completion back to the group (so we can track our progress).
	
	AI: Each EdBoard member to choose a Wiki KB page to work on this month;
	        JoAnn-"Writing DITA Topics"
	        Scott-"Working with maps"
	        Bob-"About Authoring Tools"
	
	
	3. Polls
	
	Our current poll has been up there too long and has only received 21
votes. We
	noted that previous polls also suffered from low voter turnout. We
decided to
	commit to changing the poll out every month, choosing a poll question
based on
	topics raised on the dita-users yahoo list, and promoting the poll
question to
	the yahoo list.
	
	AI: JoAnn to write new poll question based on stem sentence discussion
on yahoo
	list.
	
	
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